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'… the best performances of this music I have heard. Her interpretations combine freedom and control in performances that range from the most tender ...'Take, for instance, the Fourth Nocturne—in Stott's hands a suave miracle of purling pearliness, fraught with delicate hesitations and suppressed sigh ...» More

The piece Romance sans paroles is the third of a set of three published in 1880 though written some seventeen years before that, probably in 1863 when the composer was eighteen. Its beguiling charm is typical of much early Fauré and may be dismissed too quickly by the over-sophisticated as ‘salon music’, a term which has for some reason become derogatory. Let it be remembered that the nineteenth-century ‘salons’ of Europe, and particularly Paris, were the meeting places of many of the most cultivated and artistic minds of the time, and the music heard therein was provided by many of the great composers of the age, among them Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn, perhaps the most obvious influence on this ‘song without words’.